• nexguy@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    We do have existing mechanisms in place. More expensive and less safe options. This is definitely not a huge and unwieldy system. Very simple and streamlined and much cheaper. Nothing amazing or world changing… just some minor technological advances.

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      16 hours ago

      I don’t see how it’s more expensive or less safe for authentication to be signing with a private key and publishing the public key…

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        15 hours ago

        You don’t get it. It’s on the block chain, it’s a chain of blocks man, like it’s decentralized finance man, we’re calling it defi, like hifi but defi, it’s gonna be huge.